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Posted: July 19, 2012 - 11:18pm

Health Care: Shifting the burden

“Today’s Supreme Court ruling is extremely disappointing for Virginia and for America,” said Gov. Bob McDonnell on June 28, when the high court upheld Washington’s 2010 health-care overhaul.’ ... It “infringes on our citizen’s liberties, will harm small businesses, and will impose dramatic unfunded mandates on Virginia and all states.” ...

If Virginia joined Louisiana, Texas and other states by refusing to do D.C.’s grunt-work for it, it would merely be shifting the burden back where it belongs: on the Beltway denizens who imposed the burden in the first place.